Re: Case

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:22:47 -0400 Padraic Brown
<pbrown@...> writes:

>> I read a brief grammar of Romanian that claimed the existence of
>five
>> cases [snip]
>All I can say is that the inscription
>changes (drastically) from "Carol I Domnul Romaniei" to "Carol I Rege
>al Romaniei" and especially to "Carol II Regele Romanilor".
>From my grammar of Romanian...
There are indeed two true cases (plus vocative if it exists) as Nik
stated; here are a few paradigms:

"lup" (wolf)

          Sg.      Pl.
N/A -def  lup      lupi
    +def  lupul    lupii
G/D -def  lup      lupi
    +def  lupului  lupilor

"arbore" (tree)

          Sg.         Pl.
N/A -def  arbore      arbori
    +def  arborele    arborii
G/D -def  arbore      arbori
    +def  arborelui   arborilor

"cas@" (house)

          Sg.      Pl.
N/A -def  cas@     case
    +def  casa     casele
G/D -def  case     case
    +def  casei    caselor


It gets really bizarre when you have an /l/ at the end of a word that
gets "palatalized out of existence" (as Comrie says)...ahem:

copil  = child
copii  = children
copiii = the children

Hmm. Three of any letter in a row just gets on my nerves for some reason.
:)

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